21 Therefore, hand their children over to famine,(A)
and give them over to the power of the sword.
Let their wives become childless and widowed,
their husbands slain by deadly disease,[a]
their young men struck down by the sword in battle.

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Footnotes

  1. 18:21 Lit by death

21 So give their children over to famine;(A)
    hand them over to the power of the sword.(B)
Let their wives be made childless and widows;(C)
    let their men be put to death,
    their young men(D) slain by the sword in battle.

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“‘Because you maintained a perpetual hatred(A) and gave the Israelites over to the power of the sword in the time of their disaster, the time of final punishment,(B)

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“‘Because you harbored an ancient hostility and delivered the Israelites over to the sword(A) at the time of their calamity,(B) the time their punishment reached its climax,(C)

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